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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Dara's mother do before departing for the refugee camp?

2. In what year did the Khmer Rouge declare victory in Cambodia?

3. A dirt road linked the refugee camp with what Thai town?

4. What is the name of the folktale Jantu tells Dara about a coward who turns into a hero?

5. Where do Jantu and Dara take their food truck food to eat it?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are of the stories Jantu tells to Dara?

2. How are mangoes important in Jantu's and Dara's lives?

3. What happens to Dara when she runs for help for Baby?

4. Who marched into Dara's village shortly after she turned twelve and what did they do?

5. The author of this book left what university in what year to return to Thailand and help the refugees?

6. What happens when Jantu and Dara see some food trucks?

7. What happened during the 1970s which led to open conflict in Cambodia?

8. Who is Jantu?

9. Give a short description of the happier days Dara remembered when she was two or three?

10. Who is hurt during the bombing of the trucks and what is done about it?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

1. Describe the person in Nong Chan who first talked to Dara's family . What was she doing? What did she say? What did she look like and how old was she?

2. How did the girl handle the awkward situation of Dara's mother being to proud to accept the rice she offered? What was the outcome?

3. What did Nea suggest that she and Dara do while the rice was cooking? Where did they go? What did they see there?

4. Write on two of the three topics.

Essay Topic 2

1.Describe the encounter between Dara and Chnay when Dara returned to the stone pillar in her search for her family. What did Chnay tell Dara about her family? Where did they go? Why shouldn't she blame him for the destruction of the clay dolls?

2. What was going on in the clearing in the forest which was on the way to the base camp where Dara and Chnay were going to look for Dara's family?

3. Describe Chnay's and Dara's adventure in the base camp kitchen. Whom did they encounter? What was the outcome? What had lured them there?

4. Choose two of the above topics to write on.

Essay Topic 3

1. Describe what happened when the girls heard shots ring out. What did Jantu do?

2. Describe Jantu's wound.

3. How did Mother tend to Jantu when they brought her back to the base camp?

4. Choose two of the topics to write on.

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